LEARNING OUTCOME

To improve dribbling, running with the ball, awareness and turns.

TEACHING CUES

• Head up / vision / awareness of space
• Players on their toes anticipating their number being shouted
• Encourage dribbling player to lose on coming defender with a change of pace, a change of direction, zig zagging, dropping the shoulder / feinting, cut backs, etc.

ACTIVITY SET-UP AND PROCEDURE

EQUIPMENT:

Marked area, balls, bibs.

SET-UP:

ACTIVITY PROCEDURES:

• Mark off an area suitable for the age of the players.
• Mark out a central square using cones and place three balls in the centre.
• Split the team into four groups, with a group at each corner of the large area.
• Label each player within a group as number 1, 2 etc.
• The coach will shout a number; those numbered players run to the balls; turn and dribble back to their corner.
• The player who didn’t get a ball tries to steal one from the other teams.

Progressions:

• Make the areas smaller or larger
• Change numbers so players come up against different opponents
• The players with a ball get a bonus point if they can beat the player without a ball with a trick or piece of skill

COOL DOWN/ CLOSURE

Review Skill/Activity, stretching, and questions.